Pleiades Poem*
Swan
She
glides in the stillness
Serene and beautiful
Sadly alone without a mate
Seeing in the slow ripples
Sunshine mirror her reflection
Silently she follows her dream
Seeking to find him on the lake
Daffodils
Daffodils in springtime
Dew dropped with freshness
Delicately sway their pretty heads
Displaying young carefree smiles
Drenched in early morning sunshine
Delightfully like young maidens
Daintily dancing in green meadows
About Pleiades
Poems
Named for the
famous star cluster, a Pleiades is a seven-line poem without
any set meter or rhyme. The seven brightest stars in the
constellation were named for the "Seven Sisters" in Greek
mythology, thus the seven lines. The Pleiades are a
prominent sight in winter in the Northern Hemispher and in
summer in the Southern Hemisphere and have been known since
antiquity to cultures all around the world (Wikipedia).
This poetry form
was invented about a decade ago by Craig Tigerman, an editor
for Sol Magazine, an online poetry periodical.
A Pleiades has a one-word title and each of its seven lines
begins with the same letter as the first letter in the
title. There are no meter or rhyming requirements (Poetic
Forms- Pleiades).
